English
exolve
Exolve comes from Latin exsolvō ‘to unloose, release, free’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-‘to cut off, release’root as named
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsolvōas exolvō‘to unloose, release, free’
- Englishtodayexolve
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*lewh₁-‘to cut off, release’root as named
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexsolvōas exolvō‘to unloose, release, free’
- Englishtodayexolve
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- ‘to cut off, release’
so, lose, analysis, solution, lease, analyst, solve, paralysis, sol, dialysis, soluble, palsy, resolute, paralyze, paralytic, lysis, loess, 29 more
Today it means
verb To loose.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- / exolve